Injuries `old song and and dance' for Chandler

DAVID HAUGHCHICAGO TRIBUNE

The Bears listed 10 players as questionable on their injury list Wednesday, including top offensive weapons Anthony Thomas and Marty Booker. But starting quarterback Chris Chandler focuses more about what's in the game plan than who's in the huddle. "The old song and dance about we're missing this guy and we're missing that guy, really doesn't mean anything at the end of the day," Chandler said. "We'd love to have Marty, but if it doesn't work out that way, we have to go. . . . You have different personnel groups running in and out. Whoever they are, they're expected to do the job just like I am." . . .

While R.W. McQuarters was addressing a media throng near his locker about losing his starting job to Jerry Azumah, jokester and camera hog David Terrell walked by and shouted loudly, "Free O.J.!" . . . Lions coach Steve Mariucci, who was a friend of Dusty Baker's when both men worked in San Francisco, was pulling for the Cubs in the playoffs. He still talks with Baker on occasion. "I consider him a friend, [and] what a fantastic job he did with the Cubs," Mariucci said. . . . The Lions have lost 19 straight road games. . . . Paul Edinger has scored a higher percentage of his team's points than any other NFL kicker--36.1 percent. He is second in the league this season, having scored 46.4 percent of the Bears' points, 45 out of 97 points in six games. Edinger is one of six kickers who is perfect on field-goal attempts this season, hitting all 13.